UseMod vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
None
Perl
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
no example known
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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